# Choose a LinkedIn analytics tool by the data it can actually obtain

Original constructed exercises. No real account data, study participants or customer outcomes. The two expanded comparisons retain six earlier cases in total; those are not new cases.

## Use the local evaluator to record evidence and unresolved gates

The working evaluator below compares up to four candidate plans against five hard requirements: account scope, metric and observation age, history and collection work, usable export and acceptable access/exit. Enter source, date, observed or documented finding and remaining uncertainty for each. A Yes without a note remains unknown. A No blocks the candidate; a low price cannot compensate for the missing metric.

With all five requirements entered as Yes plus notes, the result is only ready for a bounded test. It is based on your declarations, not a provider certification, private-account result or purchase recommendation. The tool computes invoice amount from a decimal unit price and billed quantity, keeps annual equivalents separate, and does no currency conversion or ranking. Include plan minimums and label tax or add-on omissions in the price note.

F1 — Constructed annual option: one unit at USD 199.50 per year gives an invoice of 199.50 and an unrounded monthly equivalent of 16.625, displayed as 16.63. All data gates remain unknown until evidence is entered. F2 — Constructed public recap: the required private-impression metric is unavailable, so the candidate is blocked even if the entered price is zero. F3 — Constructed fresh connection: old post text is visible but a required seven-day historical observation was never captured. Keep history unknown or mark it unmet when absence is established; do not call the current lifetime value recovered seven-day data.

Download your private JSON record to preserve entries and open that same supported file locally later. Import accepts a bounded UTF-8 record and preserves prior entries when a file is invalid. Nothing is uploaded or automatically saved. Keep identifiers and account evidence private. The downloadable examples are fictional; the deterministic tests verify the evaluator’s decisions and arithmetic, not a vendor account, real reader preference or new research study.

## Complete three concrete shortlist decisions

L1 — Constructed publishing-path contract: a personal profile needs all relevant posts, including native LinkedIn posts outside tool T. T’s current documented post table only covers posts it published. Outcome: T fails that required population unless a verified alternative source covers the missing items. A low price or a populated chart does not turn a partial table into the required full cohort.

L2 — Constructed export contract: a two-person team needs a reusable post-level CSV. A cheaper entry plan offers charts but the documented CSV control belongs to a higher plan. Outcome: evaluate the required plan and seats, then inspect one authorized actual file for post identity, metric, capture context and absence states. Do not buy the entry plan on a screenshot of a feature it does not include.

L3 — Constructed history contract: a vendor shows posts from January, but no available evidence establishes their seven-day impression observations. Outcome: history remains unknown or unmet when absence is established. Keep the cheaper-price comparison separate. The local record can save that unresolved decision without certifying a provider or converting missing values into zero.